Poverty in Dublin 1960s (Pt.1) - RADHARC .
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Published 2016-06-04
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myyyyyyyy god, how NORMAL and CALM and CARING TV back then was. what a pleasure, though the topic is poignant. may all of these people rest in peace.
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Language, turn of phrase and vocabulary fascinate me watching old documentaries. Everyone had a clear vocal manner, despite their woes.
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My friend and I were I was Dublin in 1968,we we're English and stayed In the morning star for a shilling a night, although we were protestants we never felt threaten and the church fed us, we hitched all over southern Ireland and picked spuds for food and board, I was interviewed by a TV programme called seven days who paid me £2 enough to get the ferry to Liverpool, it was a great time, I was 15.
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Thanks for publishing this on YouTube. This is unexpectedly poignant stuff from early RTE and it’s reassuring that it’s available for those interested.
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I was a Garda for 31 years and I blame all those greedy publicans who are willing to take anyone's money without a thought for the poverty and social destruction they cause. You never hear a publican contributing to any charity for the homeless etc. Take take take and never give back is their motto!
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I'm very grateful that my parents emigrated Eire in 1958 for Australia. I am the youngest of eight. Life wasn't easy but mum and dad worked hard and gave us a good house, huge back yard, summer holidays by the beach, education to university. It's sobering to watch this. I often daydreamed of what life might have been like if I stayed in Eire. When I returned as an adult in 1981 I was saddened by the depressed scenes I witnessed.
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Lost and severed from our ancient living.. Such sadness 🙏
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These were the gentlemen poor, ........living on next to nothing but pride. I can see my father in their faces.
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Nearly 60 years later and still we have poverty and 10k homeless due to corrupt politicians
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Johnny Patrickhaus and 5 x sixpence was half a crown. In the early 60s that would buy a quarter lb of fresh butter, 6 morning rolls and 1 pint of milk. And that half crown went between my mum and the neighbour downstairs who took turns borrowing it from each other. Her husband drank but my dad didn't. He was in ill health after a fall from a ship he was helping build in Greenock. No health and safety in those days nor compensation.
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Stefano Trbovic There but the grace of God go I. 🚶
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There for the grace of God go I .
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amazing old film,thank you
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For translationary purposes... A "tanner" is sixpence.
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One important thing I notice in this video is, the women are busy working, while the men are feeling very sorry for themselves, telling the reporter what has been done to them not, how they might help themselves. Another thing I noticed, the nuns and religious were the ones who supplied the food, operated the hospitals and schools, fair is fair!!!
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Men were the reason family's went with out they drank and gambled any money the had their wife's and children had nothing my father did the same a great man in the pub and nothing more
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Thanks for uploading👍
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EXCELLENT FABOULOUS AWESOME where the man says the men who are up try to keep the men who are down on There luck well down ' is so true even in 2021
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Shocking, everyone should watch this
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It's heartbreaking to see obviously intelligent, thoughtful men so down on their luck. The gentleman at 5.33 has the look of a down-at-heel Montgomery Clift (the Hollywood star of the 50s). I wonder what brought him to such a low point in life.
